Where's y'all frum?
This online quiz is frighteningly accurate.
What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net
Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland North accent of the Great Lakes area, or the radio-friendly sound of upstate NY and western New England, your accent is what used to set the standard for American English pronunciation (not much anymore now that the Inland North sounds like it does).
If you are not from the North, you are probably one of the following:
(a) A Southerner who hates Southern accents and tries really hard to "talk right"; or
(b) A New Yorker or New Jerseyan who doesn't have the full accent
Take this quiz now - it's easy!
Although I post anonymously, I will reveal that I was born and raised in New Jersey, by parents from the Great Lakes area. (Just how specific can this quiz be? Could it identify which town in NJ?)
I'd kind of like to see a variation on this quiz: one which identifies you by vocabulary, such as Southerners who use "buggy" instead of "shopping cart" or Midwesterners who use "pop" instead of "soda".
posted by Captain Chlorophyll @ 6:07 AM
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Talking of frighteningly accurate... It pegged me as a "Philadelphia accent," with the further clarification that if you're not from Philadelphia, you're almost certainly from the surrounding area, such as South Jersey or Delaware. Which I guess makes me an even more authentic New Jersian than you are, although I'm sure whether that's something to be proud of or not. :) What's funny is that I know I've been told by a relative at least once since I've been here that I've started talking like a New Mexican. Apparently not all that much.
Hmm, I never thought of you having a Philly accent. Maybe I'm just too used to hearing it that it sounds normal to me.
I wonder how it would peg my sophomore biology teacher, who told us not to use the eyewash station as a "wooder" fountain.
Well, technically, it's a "mid-atlanntic" accent. I can hear a difference between my own accent and someone from Philly proper, but apparently it's close enough to qualify as variants on the same thing, which is fair enough. And it did, in fact, pin me down to within a few miles, so I'm impressed.
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